Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Symptom Patterns and Pathophysiological Mechanisms in Dyspeptic Patients with and Without Helicobacter pylori

Giovanni Sarnelli, Rosario Cuomo, Jozef Janssens, Jan Tack

Clinical Symptoms in Endoscopic Reflux Esophagitis: Evaluation in 8031 Adult Subjects

Kazuyo Okamoto, Ryuichi Iwakiri, Mitsuru Mori, Megumi Hara, Kayoko Oda, Akiko Danjo, Akifumi Ootani, Hiroyuki Sakata, Kazuma Fujimoto

Elevated Intraesophageal Pressure in Patients with Achalasia: A Common and Important Manometric Finding

Dimitrios K. Kamberoglou, Evanthia P. Zambeli, Panagiotis A. Triantafyllopoulos, Nikolaos G. Margetis, Nikolaos K. Gavalakis, Vassilios D. Tzias

Expression of Urokinase-Type Plasminogen Activator and Its Receptor in Gastric Fibroblasts and Effects of Nonsteroidal Antiinflammatory Drugs and Prostaglandin

Jun-Ichi Iwamoto, Kimiko Takahashi, Yuji Mizokami, Toshiya Otsubo, Syuuhei Miura, Toshiaki Narasaka, Hiroki Takeyama, Takayuki Omata, Kouichi Shimokoube, Takeshi Matsuoka

COX-2 Is Essential for EGF Induction of Cell Proliferation in Gastric RGM1 Cells

Eiji Sasaki, Kazunari Tominaga, Toshio Watanabe, Yasuhiro Fujiwara, Nobuhide Oshitani, Takayuki Matsumoto, Kazuhide Higuchi, A. S. Tarnawski, Tetsuo Arakawa

Effect of Motilin on Endogenous Release of Insulin in Conscious Dogs in the Fed State

Hideki Suzuki, Hiroyuki Kuwano, Erito Mochiki, Norihiro Haga, Tatuo Shimura, Kenichi Nomoto, Toshiyuki Tanaka, Akiyoshi Mizumoto, Zen Itoh

Viscoelastic Behavior of Small Intestine in Streptozotocin-Induced Diabetic Rats

Jingbo Zhao, Donghua Liao, Jian Yang, Hans Gregersen

Incidence of Advanced Adenomas of the Rectosigmoid Colon Three Years and Five Years After Negative Flexible Sigmoidoscopy in 4010 Patients

Williamson B. Strum

Prognostic Significance and Correlation with Survival of bcl-2 and TGF-β RII in Colon Cancer

Gregory Kouraklis, John Kakisis, Stamatios Theoharis, Antonia Tzonou, Andromachi Glinavou, John Raftopoulos, Gabriel Karatzas

Differential Expression of Intracellular Apoptotic Signaling Molecules in Tumor and Tumor-Infiltrating Lymphocytes During Development of Invasion and/or Metastasis of Gastric Carcinoma

Shohei Koyama

CASE REPORT: Recurrent Metastatic Klatskin's Carcinoid Tumor to Celiac Lymph Nodes in a Teenager: Diagnosis by Endoscopic Ultrasound-Guided Fine Needle Aspiration Biopsy with Immunocytochemical Correlation

Mohamad A. Eloubeidi, Victor K. Chen, Andrea L. Volk, Nirag Jhala, Selwyn M. Vickers, David C. Chhieng

Naturally Occurring Antibodies to Epithelial Cell Adhesion Molecule (EpCAM)

Irena Kirman, Dareema Jenkins, Ryan Fowler, Richard L. Whelan

CASE REPORT: K-ras Mutation and Loss of Heterozygosity at 17p with β-Catenin Accumulation in Intramucosal Carcinoma of the Ileostomy in Familial Adenomatous Polyposis: A Case Report

Keisuke Hata, Toshiaki Watanabe, Yutaka J. Kawamura, Hironori Ishigami, Takamitsu Kanazawa, Tomohiro Tada, Bin Zhao, Shinichiro Koketsu, Hirokazu Nagawa

Unique Inhibition of Bile Salt-Induced Apoptosis by Lecithins and Cytoprotective Bile Salts in Immortalized Mouse Cholangiocytes

Daisuke Komichi, Susumu Tazuma, Tomoji Nishioka, Hideyuki Hyogo, Mizuho Une, Kazuaki Chayama

CASE REPORT: Collagenous Colitis Evolving into Ulcerative Colitis: A Case Report and Review of the Literature

Bashar Aqel, Michele Bishop, Murli Krishna, John Cangemi

Telomerase Activity in Chronic Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Elke Kleideiter, Ulrike Friedrich, Alexandra Möhring, Siegfried Walker, Emil Höring, Karlernst Maier, Peter Fritz, Klaus-Peter Thon, Ulrich Klotz

Chronic Lipid Hydroperoxide Stress Suppresses Mucosal Proliferation in Rat Intestine: Potentiation of Ornithine Decarboxylase Activity by Epidermal Growth Factor

Seiji Tsunada, Ryuichi Iwakiri, Kazuma Fujimoto, Tak Yee Aw

Altered Autonomic Control in Rat Intestine Due to Both Infection with Anisakis simplex and Incubation with the Parasite's Crude Extract

I. Sánchez-Monsálvez, C. De Armas-Serrá, W. Bernadina, F. Rodríguez-Caabeiro

Peroxynitrite Inhibits Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Signaling in Caco-2 Cells

Aliye Uc, Neil W. Kooy, Jeffrey L. Conklin, Warren P. Bishop

IgA and IgG Tissue Transglutaminase Antibody Prevalence and Clinical Significance in Connective Tissue Diseases, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, and Primary Biliary Cirrhosis

N. Bizzaro, D. Villalta, E. Tonutti, A. Doria, M. Tampoia, D. Bassetti, R. Tozzoli

CASE REPORT: Behçet's Disease Complicated by Toxic Megacolon

Clarisse Adorian, Ghattas Khoury, Ayman Tawil, Ala I. Sharara

CASE REPORT: Elevated Factor VIII and Portal Vein Thrombosis

Venodhar R. Julapalli, Paul F. Bray, Andrea Duchini

News and Notices

Author Index to Volume 48

Subject Index to Volume 48